Webinars & Workshops
Available Topics
The following topics are available as live virtual webinars and in-person workshops, tailored to fit the unique goals, needs, and aspirations of your group or organization.
Topics span the full Character Mapping framework, from the deepest internal processes within the System of Selves, to dynamic patterns passed down in families and culture, as well as trauma-informed understandings about attachment, survival strategies, and how to use the storytelling craft as a path for your own artistic health.
An Integral View of Human Living
The Integral Framework lays the foundation for all of the core topics that together create cohesive, dynamic characters. Live workshops take the self-paced online course into a live, interactive experience, focusing on characters and stories you're working on while supporting artistic health.
Ties That Bind: Family Legacies & Social Roles
Learn to quickly create a family tree that tracks relational dynamics across generations and through the present day. Discover the role of ethnic and cultural influences in a character's life, and master the dysfunctional relational rules that drive a character’s familial and social roles.
Systems of Selves
Develop the layers of a character's personality and master the nuanced rules that govern their inner selves. Identify the core wounds and gifts driving motivations and internal conflicts. Unconscious “shadow work” and personality typing systems are applied to character story arc, with tips on avoiding stereotypes.
Survival, Attachment, Power & Control
Get a deeper look at chilhood attachment styles and wounds that inform a wide range of survival strategies and adult intimacy patterns. The shame accompanying attachment traumas and the underlying drive for power and control are illustrated in depth.
Myths About Madness
Learn new perspectives on common mental health diagnoses and the latest findings about the emotional brain and nervous system. You’ll learn to distinguish between “Big T” and “little t” traumas, and the most common life experiences that bring out the best and worst in any character.
Using Your Craft for Artistic Health
Identify parts of you that block or support creative flow. Transform your relationship to procrastination, perfectionism, striving, insecurities, and rejection. Preserve and improve psychological health when taking on challenging characters. Learn tools for harvesting the character's gifts and releasing their burdens.
These Topics in Coaching
Go deeper with Character Mapping™ through customized coaching for individuals and teams. Choose from one or more of these topics to ground and guide our work together.